Job Location: Remote in US, Canada, or Europe

Incredible Dream is a modern game studio on a mission to take players on memorable adventures with their favorite people through tabletop games. We’re a technology and media company that sees digital as a means to connect, but the aspiration is all about taking Social offline and to new heights. If you’re as ambitious as we are about creating the most sought-after social experiences, consider joining our team of AAA video game talent for a ground floor opportunity with an early stage startup.

Incredible Dream Studios is a fully remote company with team members working from Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, St. Louis, Warsaw, and more!

We’re looking for an experienced Game Designer (from board games and/or video games) to join our team to help us finish our first board game and potentially lead future games for us.

What will you be doing?

• Design quest content for established game systems that meets our product and business goals.
• Oversee player testing and use the feedback to help perfect game systems.
• Oversee and update game design documentation.
• Update relevant sections of the story bible.
• Polish overall gameplay, including adjusting game systems as needed for balance.
• Make suggestions to improve the experience for players.
• Additional related responsibilities, including prototyping mechanics and future game concepts.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Report directly to the Game Design Director
• May lead to future opportunities to do lead design on expansions and/or designs for new titles.

What we’re looking for:

• [Non-negotiable] Positive, constructive, and collaborative attitude with strong work ethic and high integrity.
• 1 or more shipped game titles as a game designer in the roleplaying game, legacy game, and/or card game genres.
• Experience with layout design tools including Adobe InDesign and Figma, or capacity to learn very quickly.
• Avid board game player: a student of modern board game design.
• Highly diverse interests outside of gaming.
• Solid math skills and fluency with probability.
• Growth mindset: interested in learning, embraces challenges, enthusiastic curiosity.
• Able to handle critiques and an openness to different player perspectives.
• People skills (including strong communication) to work effectively and respectfully with people in various job functions, backgrounds, cultures, locations, and languages.
• Fluency in English and modern personal technology (personal computers, mobile devices, google suite or MS Office, email, messaging, etc). Aptitude to learn new online tools as required.

If you don’t quite meet a qualification or two (excluding the first bullet point), then consider taking a chance! We will too, especially if it means the opportunity to enrich the team with a variety of experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Nice to have:

• Relevant degree(s)
• Broad experience playing board games and/or video games
• Experience shipping physical board or card games
• Experience with social media, streaming, or fan/community engagement.

Why Incredible Dream?

Incredible Dream is an early stage startup, and like most startups we’ve got big ambitions and an even bigger heap of moxie. We make board games and card games, for people who mostly play video games. It’s not going to be easy but we believe that meeting in person is increasingly meaningful and increasingly rare. Our games offer rich shared experiences that bring friends together. The Dream is to evolve the gaming industry and influence culture with our IP for generations to come.

Our team operates remotely, with folks based throughout North America and Europe. You can expect a flexible vacation policy, remote work, and flexible work hours. For full-time employees, we also offer ownership in VC-backed startup and competitive health plans. This is a great team of experienced people who have fun, do good work, and are good to each other.

Whatever you do, don’t join Incredible Dream because of who we say we are or what we offer. Join us because you want the same incredible dream that we want: wild success and pride in how we got there.

What happens after I apply?

1. Phone Call. If we feel you may be a match based on the information you provide, a member of the team will reach out to schedule a quick phone call to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Incredible Dream Studios.
2. Remote Interviews (video preferred). We will work with you to schedule interviews with relevant members of the team. Note that these may be spread out over a week or two depending on schedules.
   1. Collaboration and creative process discussion with the Game Design Director
   2. World and narrative discussion with a member of the narrative team
   3. Meet the founders
3. Reference Checks. We’ll ask you to provide 3 references whom we’ll call to ask about what it’s like to work with you and for you.
4. Offer. We’ll contact you to discuss terms of an offer verbally before sending you a written offer. If we make a determination earlier in the process that it’s not the right fit, we’ll promptly let you know.

Ready? Send your resume and portfolio to the attached email! No cover letter required.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. Additionally, we welcome notes in your application about your pronoun preferences (e.g., she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs).